Salary Information for Nursing Jobs in Canada

Salary information for nursing jobs in Canada.

Job salaries for nursing as a career might increase above these levels if the registered nurse assumes other duties and responsibilities besides direct patient care.

Annual Salary Range for Registered Nursing Jobs in Canada

Province	step One	Top of scale
Quebec	$40,927	$60,319
Ontario	$57,252	$81,315 $82,258 after 25 yrs of service

These registered nurse salaries are what the nurse would make in a position providing care directly to the patient. This may be at the bedside, in a residential care facility, or in the patient's own home.

The lower number is the nurse salary at the entry level of experience and the higher number reflects the salary at the top of the payscale.

This page - Nursing Careers, explains the term "job classifications.

List of Labor Unions representing nurses in Canada.

Labour Union collective agreement is explained on this page.

You can view the registered nurse salary payscale for nursing jobs in Canada on the websites of the various labour unions that represent nurses in the 13 provinces and territories.

The collective agreements on those union websites will provide detailed salary information for each individual province and the payscale for nurses in various job categories.

www.registered-nurse-canada.com has summarized salary information in tabular format on the following pages:

payscale for a registered nurse salary
payscale for a licensed practical nurse salary.

Nursing careers occur in many setting not just doing bedside care. Some RN jobs might include supervision, clinical teaching, or administration.

Union positions are paid at the appropriate payscale for the job classifcation. These registered nurse salaries reflect the level of responsibility, decision-making and education required to perform the job.

In unionzed position your advancec to the next step of the salary payscale with each year of experience as specificed in the collective agreement

More advanced nursing careers in Canada may be union excluded, in which case salary would be negotiated within the parameters of any existing provincial guidelines.

Of course some nurses do not belong to nursing unions at all, but in facts belong to other unions that more precisely reflect the main domain of their work. Salary information for these nurses would only be available on the specific union site representing those workers such as:

nursing faculty at university, colleges, and institutions
federal employees
provincial government employees

More Salary Information

Dollars per hour or annual salary amounts do not provide the whole picture of what nurses are paid in Canada. Because of the efforts of labour unions nurses enjoy a wide variety of benefits that may not show up on the paycheque but nevertheless have real monetary value.

These benefits include:

a pension plan - some money is deducted every month and contributed to a pension plan. Additional money is contributed to the pension account by the employer on behalf of the employee.

paid sick time - sick time is accrued on an annual basis at a rate that ranges from 1 to 1 1/2 days per month. As long you have unpaid sick time, when work is missed due to illness you receive regular pay and benefits for that day.

paid statutory Canadian holidays - If you work on a statutory holiday, the pay for work that day would be paid out at the rate specified in the union contract. This is usually time and a half or double time for some holidays such a Christmas or New Year's Day. Additionally you would receive a day off with pay, so in fact you would actually be paid anywhere from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 times the hourly rate for working on a statutory holiday.

paid vacation - vacation benefits for nursing jobs in Canada are paid days. Union contracts specify anywhere from 15 - 20 days for the first year of vacation. More days accrue with every year of work. As an example a registered nurse with ten years experience would receive 26 days of vacation in British Columbia , in Saskatchewan that would be 15 days and in Manitoba 20 days. It is obvious then that some variation does exist in paid vacation days between provinces.

life insurance policy - many unions negotiate for life insurance benefits to be paid by the employer. The life insurance policy is in effect as long as the individual is employed.

medical insurance premiums paid by the employer

Salary information for nursing jobs in Canada shows that nursing as a career is a well paid job with benefits.

Although parity has not yet been achieved across all the provinces for registered nurse salaries, most provinces do enjoy a payscale that provides for compensation that reflects the level of responsibility and decision making inherent in nursing as a career in Canada.

Compare the hourly rate for Registered Nurse Salaries across the Canadian Provinces

Compare the wages paid to a registered nurse with the Licensed Practical Nurse Salary.

View common payroll deductions from registered nurse salaries in Canada

Read about other working conditions that can increase the hourly rate of registered nurse salaries

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